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Top Albums 5/12/2026

WERU sends weekly reports to the music industry representatives which keeps new music flowing into the station.  Below are our most recent top recording reports for the week ending on Sunday, May 10th.  Our weekly airplay chart is posted below.  Our next chart will be posted on Tuesday, May 19th.

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May 4th, 2026 through May 10th, 2026

Top Thirty Overall Most-Played Recordings

Artist

Record

Label

1

HOT SUPPERS

Time Is Now

Self-Released

2

I’M WITH HER

Sing Me Alive

Rounder/Concord

3

OLD NO. 1 REVISTED

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Truly Handmade

4

KIM MOBERG

All That Really Matters

Self-Released

5

LUCINDA WILLIAMS

World’s Gone Wrong

Highway 20/Thirty Tigers

6

ANDY REVKIN

Wake Up Martha

Self-Released

7

EAVES WILDER

Little Miss Sunshine

Secretly Canadian

8

KACEY MUSGRAVES

Middle Of Nowhere

Lost Highway

9

RINGO STARR

Long Long Road

UMe

10

COURTNEY BARNETT

Creature Of Habit

Mom+Pop

11

DERVISH

The Great Irish Song Book Vol 2

Down the Road

12

JOYANN PARKER

Life Lines

Hopeless Romantic

13

MAN WOMAN CHAINSAW

“Nosedive” [Single]

Fiction

14

NOAH KAHAN

The Great Divide

Mercury/Republic

15

RACHEL BROOKE

This One’s For You

MAL

16

TAJ MAHAL AND THE PHANTOM BLUES BAND

Time

Resonatin

17

WEIRD NIGHTMARE

Hoopla

Sub Pop

18

DURAN DURAN

“Free To Love” [Single]

BMG

19

METRIC

Romanticize The Dive

Thirty Tigers

20

KRISTIN DIABLE

Impossible Things

Speakeasy

21

ALELA DIANE

“In My Own Time” b/w “California” [Single]

Fluff & Gravy

22

AFGHAN WHIGS, THE

“Duvateen” [Single]

BMG

23

JESSE MALIN

“Hollywood Forever” [Single]

Wicked Cool

24

TEDDY THOMPSON

“So This Is Heartache” [Single]

Royal Potato

25

MARS LASAR

A Kind Of Stillness

Sound Manipulations

26

SHYFRIN ALLIANCE

“Red Blues” [Single]

Self-Released

27

GREEZY WHEELS

We Come We Go

Armadillo

28

ALLISON RUSSELL

“No Springtime” feat. Joy Oladokun & Julie Williams [Single]

Fantasy/Concord

29

FANTASY OF A BROKEN HEARTS

Feats Of Engineering

Dots Per Inch

30

ERIC BIBB

One Mississippi

Repute

Top “Adds”  

Artist

Record

Label

1

TINVIS

Texnia

Mama Mañana

2

ALISON FAITH LEVY

“California Golden Glow” b/w “Sweet Loneliness” [Single]

Self-Released

3

MICHAEL J MILES WITH JILL KAEDING

Great American Jukebox

Self-Released

Top Ten World Recordings

Artist

Record

Label

1

MIGHTY ROOTSMEN, THE

The Mighty Rootsmen

Bulletproof

2

JOSE GONZALEZ

Against The Dying Of The Light

Mute

3

MARS LASAR

A Kind Of Stillness

Sound Manipulations

4

WANEES ZAROUR

Silwan

Levantine

5

RANDAL L MEEK

Dreaming Under The Banyan Tree

Self-Released

6

NASEEM ALATRASH

Bright Colors On A Dark Canvas

Levantine

7

UMUT ADAN AND ZEBANIS

Baska Bahar

Six Degrees

8

ANA TIJOUX

97 [EP]

Victoria Producciones

9

ANTONIO CARLOS AND JOCAFI, ADRIAN YOUNGE AND ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD

Antonio Carlos & Jocafi JID026

Jazz Is Dead

10

ALTIN GUN

Garip

ATO

Top Ten Hip Hop Recordings

Artist

Record

Label

1

THUNDERCAT

Distracted

Brainfeeder

2

DANNY BROWN

Stardust

Warp

3

MOONCHILD

Waves

ONErpm

4

GENA

The Pleasure Is Yours

Lex

5

ANA TIJOUX

97 [EP]

Victoria Producciones

6

JILL SCOTT

To Whom This May Concern

Blues Babe

7

BLCKFRIEND

Lonestar

Babygrande

8

DENZEL CURRY AND THE SCYTHE

Strictly 4 The Scythe

Loma Vista/Concord

9

NIGHTMARES ON WAX

Echo45 Sound System

Warp

10

KUMAIL

Mudbrown

Tru Thoughts

Top Ten Jazz Albums

Artist

Record

Label

1

GABRIELLE CAVASSA

Diavola

Blue Note

2

INARA GEORGE

Songs Of Douglass And Littell

Release Me

3

MARS LASAR

A Kind Of Stillness

Sound Manipulations

4

PAUL KELLER ORCHESTRA, THE

Thank You Notes: The Music Of Gregg Hill

Cold Plunge

5

CHRIS HAZELTON

In Rotation

Cellar

6

RANDAL L MEEK

Dreaming Under The Banyan Tree

Self-Released

7

ERICA VON KLEIST

Picc Pocket

Self-Released

8

TED CHUBB

Live At The Statuary

Circle 9

9

SUNDAD

Way Station One

Self-Released

10

PETE MILLS

This Is Now

Mighty Ernie

Top Ten Electronic / Dance Recordings

Artist

Record

Label

1

JOHN BELTRAN, PLACID ANGLES

Canada

Oathcreations

2

RAQUEL RAMOS

“Back In Queens” [Single]

Self-Released

3

HONEY DIJON

The Nightlife

SOS

4

HOLY FUCK

Event Beat

Satellite Services

5

FCUKERS

O

Ninja Tune

6

ROBYN

Sexistential

Young

7

GORILLAZ

The Mountain

Kong

8

NINE INCH NAILS

Nine Inch Noize

The Null Corporation

9

LADYTRON

Paradises

Nettwerk

10

LATE NIGHT TALES: BARRY CAN’T SWIM

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Late Night Tales

Jazz “Adds”  

Artist

Record

Label

1

BEN WOLFE

Any Time After Now

Resident Arts

2

DAVID JANEWAY

Live At Blue Llama

Steeplechase

May 12, 2026 By Denis Howard

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